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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1950!
IN THE NEWS:
- The Brink’s robbery in Boston nets bandits almost $3 million
- Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb
- Korean War begins when North Korean Communist forces invade South Korea
- Puerto Rican nationalists make an assassination attempt on President Truman
- McCarthyism begins
- NY Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies to take the World Series
- Earl Hilton issues the first credit card
ON THE RADIO:
- Damon Runyon Theatre
- My Favorite Husband (to become I Love Lucy on television)
- 21st Precinct
- Amos and Andy
- Bob Hope Show
- Broadway is My Beat
- Casey, Crime Photographer
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Dr. Kildare
- Meet the Press
- This is Your FBI
ON TELEVISION:
- Truth or Consequences
- Alan Young Show
- Burns and Allen Show (moved over from radio)
FADS & FASHION:
- Little People
- Clue
- Telephone booth stuffing
- Dennis the Menace comic books
- Party lines (75% of phone service customers have them!)
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $1,750
- Gasoline: 27 cents per gallon
- House: $14,500
- Bread: 14 cents per loaf
- Milk: 82 cents per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 3 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $3,800
- Minimum Wage: 75 cents per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- All About Eve – a dramatic film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- South Pacific – based on the book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, directed by Joshua Logan
PULITZER PRIZES:
- The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (fiction)
- South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan (drama)
- Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (history)
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samual Flagg Bemis (biography)
- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (poetry)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- Ralph Bunche, USA, 1904-1971, Professor at Harvard University, Director of the United Nations Division of Trusteeship, mediator in Palestine in 1948
TOP SONGS:
- Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole
- Harbor Lights by Sammy Kaye
- Rag Mop by The Ames Brothers
- I Wanna Be Loved by The Andrews Sisters
- The Tennessee Waltz by Patti Page
